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I wikliam wrieast. |-p p"?ors. ^e Inbepeniieiti jfamilg ftetospaper: Jfor fjjc promotion of t|e political, Social, |LgricttIfuraI anb Commercial Interests of flje Sot#. | $2 peh yeab, in* advance. VOLUME 7. YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 1# 1861. NUMBER 29. Mgmal fgfxtitr. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE" [In the last issue of the Enquirer, was, published what purported to be the Mcssage to Congress, of his Excellency Presi- j dent Lincoln. By a gentleman who has! just arrived here from Washington, we learn that the report of the Message furnished by tel-//e-graph is bogus. At considerable trouble and with many hair-breadth escapes, the gentleman referred to above i -a...!. -_J i I_:_J i procured an autuenuc copy, auu uas iuuu- | ly placed it at our disposal. It being an i abed document, we hasten to lay it before' our readers.]?Enquirer Imp. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: { Having been convened by the so called j Constitution of the United States, your at-j tention is not called to any ordinary point! of subjugation. It appears that in the! several States, which have attempted tose i cede and set up a government for them-: selves, there is some forty or fifty men in j arms, mostly in Virginia, who have, byj some means or other, provided themselves i with arms and ammunition ; and have made | demonstrations which have caused me to; believe that their intention is to subjugatel the so-called United States. Under these' considerations I ordered out seventy-five I thousand men for the protection of the' Capitol of the once United States, and to suppress the rebellion as aforesaid. As 1 have not as yet succeeded, and fearing that they will still continue in their nefarious' designs, I have called you together to consult what is best to be done in the premises.! I therefore recommend to you the following' programme, submitted by the Secretary of; War: That you appropriate (400,000,000) four hundred million of men, and (3725,000,- ! 000 75) seven hundred and twenty-five; million dollars and seventy-five cents, to make the war short and sharp. He would also recommend that we employ (200,009,000) two hundred million Chinese, to com-; mence excavating directly uaderneath the seceding States, making their approaches | gradually, by parallel lines, to the surface: of the earth, now claimed as the Southern , Confederacy; and that (1,000,000) one: million of men be detached from the main! body of the so-called United States Army,! to co-operate with them iu their approaches to the surface. Our valuable engineer,! Maj. Nutmeigs, thinks this will completely rout the enemy. He also recommends that j we apply to our friend and ally, Great Brit-1 ton, for (400,000) four hundred thousand! ice bergs, to form a cordon of military posts, extending from the mouth of the Chesa peake to the Rio Grande. This is thought by all our military men as one ef the grandest operations in modern warfare, and that! it will have a chilling effect on the insurgents j and maintain the blockade. , lie has been negotiating with Neptune, i the King of the Sea, and has procured his! services, offensive and defensive, during! the war, and procured from him (200,000) two hundred thousand whales, to act as gun boats aloog the coast of the so-called seceding States, each of them to be mounted with a long thirty two pounder, for the pur- j pose of entering the small bays and inlets! s in the so-called secediog States, and land- j ing men armed with my various proclama-! tions, to put down the so-called rebellion. It will also be necessary to have a force! of (200,000,000) two hundred million of j men stationed on the banks of New Found- j land, to keep the codfish and mackerel in j onkioAtinn no T hnup rpliahlo information i that a great many of them are goiog dowo | South to Dixie, and are aiding and abet- j1 ting the enemy. I think with this force in the field, properly fenced in, and the bars kept up, and a reserve of (400,000,000) four hundred million of men, we can, by early frost, approach the enemy's lines, and at ' least convince him that we have a govern- , ment. I would recommend that (400,000) four hundred thousand men be sent to Egypt, to transport two of the pyramids to the so-; called United States?one of them to be placed where the Washington monument 1 now stands, to lay my boues in, when death, ; the slayer of kings as well as subjects, 1 shall have laid his icy hand upon me. I ' have always wished and desired to be em- ' balmcd and laid in the tombs of the Pha i1 roahs. The other to be placed in the City'' of Richmond, to receive the remains ofj! Field Marshall Scott, King of the two Cieilys, Lord High Admiral of Constradt, i1 Duke of Brogauzas and Master of the,' Horse. The Secretary of the Treasury recom-j rneuds the following programme to raise'' what funds will be necessary to carry on i the war: ] 1. That a tax of 2 per cent, be levied t on all fish running South of Mason and | Dixon's line, except those employed in the i service of the so called United States. jj 2. That the comet be charged 20 peri; cent, mileage, as loug as he continues tu; < roam in the Southern hemisphere ji ?>. That the man in the moon be charg j ed 75 per cent, per month, for furnishing i the so-called Southern Confederacy with! < light during the war. : ] 4. Also an advalorem tax of 25 per j 1 cent, be levied on all rivers running into j 1 the Mississippi, especially the Ohio Kiver. !{ 5. Also a tax of 20 per cent, on all hogs it raised at Pig's Point, on the Potomac. i r G. He also recommends a tax of 2 per it cent, per gallon, on the water now running jt over the falls of Niagara, and all other falls , | in the so-called United States. j { I will not trespass any longer upon your s patience, and will conclude by stating that f the reports of the different departments of j t the so-called United States, have in every t particular proved satisfactory, and I feel a confident that we will be able to accomplish p everything necessary to the subjugation of in both the North and the South. Respectfully submitted to your consideration.? [ Por further particulars, apply to Jefferson j t Davis, Richmond, Ya. ic Respectfully, i ABRAHAM LINCOLN. j< A near lantern is better than a distant star. IS Bloody Black Bepublican Toryism. The shallowest, most conceited and flipant, as well as the most unprincipled and bloodthirsty, Abolition journal which daily makes its appearance in this city, occupies itself just now, con amorc, with the task of urging the Government to hang the of- j fleers and crew of the privateer Savannah, j landed here, on Tuesday, by the Harriet Lane. "Their crime," it says, "is clearly piracy, and is punishable with the extreme; penalty attached to that crime. Let it! therefore be inflicted." What contempt-j ible, short-sighted imbecility! Has the: editor of the aforesaid newspaper ever read; the history of the earlier stages of the war! of independence ? If so, has he forgotten, that a certain George Washington, a noto- j rious rebel against the British Crown, was! similarly menaced witti deatn as a traitor, i if he could only be caught? And that! Lords this, that and the other, issued proc- j tarnations, declaring that every single colo-; nist taken with arms in his hands was guil-; ty of undoubted felony, and would be hung ? j Washington did not affect to deny the rebellion. He justified it as having been! forced upon Americans by British despo-: tism?not the tithe as bitter as the South J has groaned under at the hands of the Ab-j olitionists of the North ; and in answer to the! threat that his soldiers should be executed, contented himself with solemnly assuringj the Commander-in-Chief of the Tory army that where the latter hung one man, he; would string up two. Let Mr. Lincoln and j his advisers proceed to the length of hang-! ing the crew of the Savannah, and we have! no hesitation in predicting that such bloody reprisals will be iuflicted by Jefferson Davis that an out-cry of horror and indigna-; tion will arise against the senseless maniacs' at Washington, who shall have aroused his just wrath. The Lincoln Government affects to re gard every single individual who has taken : up arms to defend Southern soil from invasion as punishable by hanging, and all who; have aided them or rendered them comfort; as guilty of misprison of treason. At least four hundred thousand individuate ought,. under such teachings, to be led to the gal-' lows to morrow, and the remainder of the. population of the Confederate States should i be subjected to fine and imprisonment This is, substantially, the doctrine held by j all our leadiog Abolitionists, although, j when the time for carrying their threats io to effect comes, a certain instinct of selfpreservation whispers in their ears that the i chalice they so recklessly noia up to others j may, later, be returned to their own lips. If they were thoroughly consistent they would not rest contented unless each prisoner captured were visited with an ignominious death. They should either directly j advocate such brutality, or else they should ! cease to impose their reckless clamor upon the public. Americans have been accustomed to express sympathy with Italians, Hungarians, and even Sepoys in a state of insurrection, condemning, as worthy of per-j petual infamy, rulers who have decreed the I penalty of the law upon their subjects ;! but never under any foreign nationality?; not within the most barbarous Turkish' Pashaliks?have theories of punishment been promulgated, so ferocious and savage is those which have formed the staple of Republican ravings since the middle of: April. One of the most painful phenomena of these dark and distracted times, is the effort that is being made by the autocracy at VvTashington, and its organs elsewhere, to discourage every tendency to kindly, con-, ciliatory or peaceful feelings towards the Southern States, and to create such erubitferment between the two sections as may render a future settlement of difficulties impossible. The comparatively mild policy of General McClellan in Western Virginia and Kentucky has been condemned, although a contrary course must inevitably lead to a local guerilla warfare of the most' deplorable description. Murderous attacks upon women and children, and the slaugh-/ ter of innocent citizens of a Court of Justice, and massacres like that of Booneviile,' excite the jubilant applause of the demoui-J *cs who hold the destinies of the country, in theirhands. Emulating the Robespierres j1 ind Murats of the Reign of Terror, they: scent out the possibility of sacrificing life 1 vith a keen, blood-bound instinct, as cow-| irdly it is barbarous. No patriotic con-1! ^deration will bring them to their senses, Dut they will soon be checked by their own fears, when those retaliations have commenced on Southern soil, which are inevitible, if the recommendation of a general resort to capital punishment, is carried into : execution. 'I In accordance with international law, it, las been officially declared by no less than 1 ( wo ex-Chancellors of England, as well as , jy the present Lord Chancellor, that priva- ( eering is not piracy, and that to punish it! is suchrwould be murder. The Confederal ite States occupy a position as a de ft (do!, Jovernment, which the U. States would || nstantly recognize, did they hold their L present relation to any other power besides r tself. Euglaud aod France have both re- j cognize them as belligerents, and, not ira- , jrobably, both of these countries will, ere , ong, assume an attitude, in their behalf, j lostile to ourselves. The blockade of the ( southern coast, which has been unconstitu- i | ionally proclaimed by the President, is al-', nost exclusively maintained by vessels as! f nuch privateers as the Savannah, and,', horeforc, equally liable to be considered ] jirates. If secession is unlawful, so has; ( jeen the invasion of States, the closing of. t ea-ports, the massacre of citizeus, the en- j orcement of martial law, the raising of ar-|{ nies, the infringement of the habits corpus, 2 he violation of telegraphic despatches, and :, , hundred daily iniquities thut are unscru-l( tulously perpetnited with the sanction or ( inder the orders of the Administration. If r ioutheru privateers are to be hung, such , lavoc will be made among the Northern jrisoners of wur as will cause the Abolition leinagogues who are iuciting the Govern- t uent to such cruel folly, to tremble at the I :onsequences of their ill-digested, bloody . iounseis.?Aleir York Daily JS'eics, June t 17. * H The Danger to the South. The greatest evil which the South has to apprehend in the future, is the vast immigration from the United States and other foreign countries, especially the former, which will be poured upon our shores.? When Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, declared that it would be true economy in 'the North to spend a hundred roillione a iyear rather than permit the South to be inI dependent, he did not over estimate the annual commercial and manufacturing value of the South to the Northern States. Indeed, the immense expenditures and efforts making to compel us to remain in the Union, and minister to the wealth and power of the sordid, selfish and vulgar money lords of the Northern cities, demonstrate irrcsistably that without the South, the North is commercially ruined, and her great cities in the midst of the audacious aspirations are hopelessly paralyzed in trade and commerce. They themselves admit the fact; they no longer so much as attempt to conceal that the 'poor, barren, sandy South' is full of jewels which have made them rich, and without which, they become penniless and baokrupt. This is the reason, and the only reason, why New York, never an abolition city, has surpassed even the Western Reserve of Ohio in her fury against the South. But whilst all this is i undeniably true, it is equally evident that,; as soon as peace is accomplished, and the independence of the South secured, these ' very classes, the commercial andmanufactu- \ ring, which have furnished the sinews of j the present war, which have surpassed the! most rabid abolitionists in their bloody demonstrations against the South ; which have! raised regiments like Billy Wilson's, and j held up before them the prize of "Beauty j and Booty," will make another movement | of invas'on compared with which thos>- now threatening our borders are comparatively i harmless, and forsaking the sinking ships of the Northern cities, will swarm like lo' # custs in our Southern marts, grasping every j department of business and trade, and reaping in their own pockets the manufacturiDgand Commercial harvest which issure to follow the Southern blood and treasure i which they have caused to flow like water I in this great cause. It is clear as day; nobody now denies1 I fV.n fKn Qrtlltll ! llj kuat tt 11 Li kilt kuuc^cuutuLLUi bug uuuvu, i tiie commercial sceptre passes from the I North, and with that sceptre, mark the pre-i diction, will pass by tens of thousands and | by hundreds of thousands those who have hitherto acknowledged allegiance to it.? j Where the carcass is, the eagles will be; gathered together. Hitherto the emigra-| tion from North to South has been a mere i drop in the bucket compared with that from j the North to the West, and has not been as! large even as that from the South to the North. But we shail see a very different; state of things when the South holds ont| rich rewards to manufacturing and comraer-: cial enterprise. Unless measures are adopt ed by the Congress and Legislatures of the; Confederate States to meet this new inva- j sion, our own people will lose all the fruits! of the war ; their institutions will been-j dangered, and, what is worse than all, the j purity and simplicity of Southern charao- j ter placed in perilous contact with the aor-j did and corrupt influences which overgrown 1 wealth has engendered in Northern society, j This subiect is really one of the most se- j rious and vital that can possibly engage the j attention of Southern statesmeu. Our Southern civilization will be infinitely more i endangered by such an inroad than by a; million of armed men. As enemies, we j fear them not; as professed friends with; trade in view, heaven deliver us. We have j no need of them, or anything they have? their brown paper sole shoes, their wooden ' buckets, their hollow philosophy, their san i guinary religion, their Spiritualism, Mor-j monism, Free Love or Abolitionism. Wej can get every article we need of clothing,! household and agricultural wares, and in! every department of business, from Eng-j land and France, arid those articles will be i made in workmanlike fashion, by people j who have not learned to think it a mark of; smartness and a subject of gratulation to [ rob your neighbor. But, unless ncutraliza tion laws are passed of the most stringent j kind, the Northern emigration will not only \ monopolize trade and commerce, but will j commence, at the ballot-box, an insidious war upon our institutions, and by the aid) of corrupt and aspiring demagogues, whoi will court their influence, will undermine! the system of slavery in what were called j the Border Slave States, and prepare the | way to cultivate theuj entirely by Northern j labor. It is for the Confederate Congress,! and the Legislatures of the South, to throw j up earthworks agaiust this, the greatest of j all dangers which menaces the South. The] right of suffrage should never be extended j by any slave community which properly appreciates that right, and has any solicitude] for the preservation of slave institutions, o any emigrant from the Northern Aboli:ion States of America. A Good Illustration.?When Presi-j lent Davis commanded the first Mississip- j ?i Regiment, says the Aberdeen Conserva. | 'ice, his troops were thoroughly disciplined. I rhey were taught to know, somewhat sterny, that each man was expected to do his luty. While his troops respected und aduired him as an officer, they were not parial to him as a man. lie did not court hem. He did not unbend to that personal amiliarity which is too often inconsistent vith true dignity of character, and which is requently tatal iu the discipline 01 a camp. Ynd yet, it is said, that when the battle of duena Vista was to be fought, and the roups were ranged iu order for the conflict, lie whisper ran along the ranks?"Where 1 s Davis?" and when he appeared hundreds >f voices exclaimed, "There he is, now we ire ready." The same feeling now prevails villi regard to the civil departments of the! toverument, upon the able administration | if which our liberties essentially depend. 1 The people must seek the man. The man j nust not court the people. liejectkd.?The Connecticut Legislaure has just rejected an amendment to the 1 State Constitution, adopted last year, which trikcsout the word "white" from that, porion of the instrument iu which the qualiications for votorn are stated. 1 The War and its Results. A three-years war would be better for the South than that immediate peace, which should restore friendly relations and renew trade and intercourse with the North. We have been so long dependent on New Eng- i land in almost every department of busi- 1 ness, and the affairs of our citizens are so i : mixed up and inter-ramified with theirs, I jthat an early peace, unless very cautiously i and carefully guarded in its provisions, < J would be sure to restore in a great measure, i lour former dependence. Again we should i i be flooded with Yankee goods, Yankoe i i ? - ? f-i i 4. l i ! manuiaoiures, x anaee teacuers, preacuere, 'pedlers and drummers. Again their vile i | literature ? their books, magazines, re- | j views and newspapers would infest us, thiok i |and noxious as the plagues of Egypt, and < !inoculate our people with their shallow i thought, tawdry fashions, mischevious theo- : ;ries and gross immoralities. Again would < lour merchants flock to their cities, our j i youth to their schools, colleges and univer- i sities, and our rich and fashionable men and i ! women to their watering places. A peace i (attended with these consequences, or even |a part of them, would be worse than a three |years' war; for such a peace would rob the 'South of its money and its mind, destroy jits nacent manufactures and prevent the ! growth of its foreign commerce. Such a [peace would impoverish the South and restore the wealth of the North. In all but I name, we should again become their slaves ! and tributaries. Trade now conquers faster j than arms; and the centres of trade are the seats of power; whilst the countries which [they trade with are their subjects, their provinces, or their colonies. If disunion does not build up centres of trade and centres of thought and centres of fashion in the (South, disunion will have effected little good. Centralization is one of the great evils of the day, and the only way to be'come independent of centralization from : without is to create centres within.? [Whilst a speedy peace is almost sure to make us again the tributaries of Northern trade and Northern centralization, a three: years' war would be certain to make us sufficiently independent of all nations, by teachiu2 us to live within ourselves, to do 1 our own hand-work and our own head- ? work, to write our own books and make our 1 own shoes, to manufacture our own doctore, | and professors and pill venders, to build our t own houses and make our own clothes. In j effecting all this, we should necessarily es- < tablish centres of trade, or manufactures, of i education, of thought and of fashion. 1 The very hope of a speedy peace is doing I us much harm, by preventing men from undertaking various forms of manufacture i which they knew would prove profitable i during the war, but would be ruinous after s a peace, patched up on Yankee or Submis sion terms. ;( We desire peace as much as most men, ] and would not have the war continue one ( moment after its legitimate purposes have been attained. But this is a war of iode- ( dependence?we are independent whilst it t lasts; and if peace is to restore dependence, ? we say, then, better fight on?fight forever! There is a greater danger to be appre- t prehended from a hasty and incautious ( peace than any we have as yet suggested, < and which we have, therefore, reserved for separate consideration It is bad enough to deal with Northerners?to have them vis- ? it us, and to be forced to visit them?but ? it would be ruinous to have them come down 1 upon us in shoals as numerous as the mack- t ercl and cod about their coasts, to seize the ballot box and control the helm of State. 1 Unless the terms of peace exclude them,; i this they will certainly do. The Yankees ji are not farmers, and few will remove to the'? Northwest. We have been their best cus-i tomers?have bought most of their manu-jf factures?and, if we refuse to go to them, j I they will certainly (unless prevented) come1 * to us. Lowell and Salem, Boston and Hurt-11 ford, and eveiy other town and village in it New England, will empty their scouudrei j < bosses, their filthy factory hands and starv- s ing laborers upon ue. They will change the! c whole tone and character of our society, j n and soon uniting with the submissioni.sts, j c abolirionize one half of the South. c No treaty of peace will be worth a fig |i that does not effectually exclude Yankee ir notious and Yankee people. Our tariff; s should discriminate against their goods, j i and our naturalization laws against them- j f selves.?Richmond Examiner. jv ? t Changes in the Northern Army.? 1 A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enipii- r rrr, dated July 3, says : "Fremont will assume command of all the army in Western Virginia, relieving I, Generals Patterson aud McCleiland. The | f Government is dissatisfied with Gen. Pat-jg terson. He has had twenty-two thousand!A men, and does nothiug. They say that he b should have occupied Lynchburg by this v time. General McClellan will be relieved h simply that he may give his whole attea- p tion to the division North of the Ohio, and vi: : IU i'XISSUUll. *' "The Government is losing confidence in c General Scott. His health is very bad, n having a complication of diseases. He in- o sista on doing every thing himself. It was A General Scott who induced Mr. Lincoln to ti appoint General Dix to command the army ti on the Potomac, thereby superseding, with q a civilian of seventy, the young, vigorous a: officer in command. The appointment was o not agreeable to the Cabinet, which desired t< to have it changed, which may yet be C done." Gen. Jackson's Motto.?Those Yan- p kees who are continually repeating the n motto of Old Hickory, "the Union must ti uud shall be pi served," should not forget E the woids he used on the same occasion.? o They are as follows : tl "But the Constitution cannot be main- w tained, nor the Union preserved, in opposi- a! tion to public feeling, by the mere exertion Ij of the coercive powers confined to the Gene- p ral Government. The foundations must p be laid in the affections of the people?in the security it gives to life, liberty, charac-jT ter and property in every quarter of thejai country, and in the paternal attachment j hi which the citizens of the several States bear D to one another as members of one political si family, mutually contributing to promote m the happiness of each other " u Subjugation of Missouri. The St. Louis State Journal, of the 29th ult., publishes the following from a correspondent at Hannibal, Mo. Our best, oldest and worthiest citizens are daily arrested, dragged from their peaceful pursuits and hurried to headquarters, surrounded with bristling bayonets, in the hands of an insolent, merciless and mercenary soldiery, who jeer and taunt them with threats and curses ; and all this done in the total absence of any orime, or even semblance of orime, committed or imagined igainst the laws, State or Federal, and without warrant of law, explanation or a moment's warning. When the amazed prisoner asks what he has done to deserve moh treatment, and demands that his acjuser shall be brought forth, that he may meet him face to face, he is answered with , ? _l _ 3 A sacanic grimaces ana insults or one most ae- t grading character. I will instance a single case. The recent editor of the Even ing Jfeicn, at this place, (Hannibal,) was rrrested at his residence a few days since, md taken to camp. Whilst there he was jompelled to perform the most degrading work, for the gratification of the soldiers rod to the fiendish delight of a number ef Black Republican spectators, who had repaired thither to "witness the performance." A.mong other things, he was made to "mark :ime" while extracts were read from his paper; to dig, under the soorching rays of i meridian sun, a deep bole in the earth for the convenience of the soldiers. Think if this, citizens of Missouri! And for what? Why this punishment and insult ? Because, forsooth, when yet he was a freeman he dared to publish the truth, which, lias, is inexcusably provocative to Black Republican ears. Houses are entered and ransaoked from cellar to attic, private prop;rty is taken by force of arms, and women ind children are driven in terror from their tiomes The State Journal appends to the foregoing some information, showing the position of affairs in Missouri, and leads to the lelief that the day of her deliverance is noti far distant : We copy from the Republican the fol- j owing paragraph. It is in keeping with j ill that that poor old prostituted political lack puts forth, in this time of the people's icril, to distract, dishearten and divide ;hem: "Gen. Ben. McCulIough is iu Arkansas with some six hundred men, but without munitions of war, arms or supplies. He las as much as he can do to take care of ais own State." For the comfort of that sheet aod itscoidjutors, we state these facts, for the cor ectness of which we make ourselves reiponsible : First. On the 13th of June, Major McUullough was eocamped at Fort Smith, with 10,000 trained veteran soldiers, with aD ;xtra supply of guns and munitions of war. Fhence he moved for Missouri, with in:reasiog numbers, to form a junction with be State troops, now more than six thousind strong at one point. Second At Pocahontas, Arkausas, six housand Arkansas troops were encamped, 7t route for Missouri, with all necessary iquipraents. Third. In Stoddard County, Missouri, i,000 State troops are encamped for the var. Some ten or fifteen regiments of men ire moving for Missouri from Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, in addition to hose already mentioued. Fourth. Governor Jackson will have in ess than twenty days a well appointed ar- s ny of nearly 50,000 men, before whom the ^ nvaders of our people will be driven like i' vild beasts from their lair. |f Added to this enumeration of military js orces, three out of every five of the able- r jodied men of Missouri are ready, aodouly! vaiting one favorable moment to assume 'f he character of the avengers of an insult-11 id and polluted State. Let the Rvpulli i0 an copy these statements into its lying;0 iheet. We do not hesitate to affirm, as a; F natter of solemn conviction and belief, that F irmcd aid to the number and amount of' ^ me hundred thousand lighting men irom; u mr sister States will be immediately thrown jc nto Missouri, if so many bo necessary to! ^ elieve an oppressed, insulted and terrortricken people of the presence of a hired, i " >ruial, foreign soldiery. The war has beeD; ^ breed upon us whether we would or no, |;j without law, without reason, without pre- D est, except that which is found in a de- e iberate and openly proalaimed purpose to ^ educe Missouri to a condition of vassalage. |e ?? ????? ? .. .. I 6 East Tennessee ?The Memphis Am t1 uiichc hears the most gratifying intelligence j rom East Tennessee, the Union party f< ;rowing weaker every day. Mr. W. D. tl ran Dyke, who was reported to be a mem- o er of the Convention of malcontents, who u rcre lately in session in East Tennessee, p as published a card contradicting the re- tl ort, and adding : tl "I have never believed secession wr.s a a emedy for the evils of which the South si omplains, (much less would I believe it a h emedy for East Tennessee,) and attended e( nly with the most disastrous consequences. 11 tnd believing so, I voted for "No Separa- a' Ion" at the recent election. Yet, as a na- tl Ive Tennessean, I feel it my duty to ac- a{ uie9ce and defend the position the State h ssumed by so large a majority on the 8th w f June Hence, as a Union man, I pro- e< ;st against the entire proceedings of the w lonvention. r* . - ------ ? it Effect of the Crisis in Phi la del- tc iiia.?The city papers of Philadelphia bl ote numerous instances of the deprecia- t' on in value of real estate in that city. Dr. to avid Jayne is one of the largest property ta wners in the city. On Chcsnut street b; lis gentleman erected some fine buildings, th hich have proved thus far more ornamentI than remunerative. Tbcy are now nearr all vacant, and the rants which should A roperly be received by the owner from the Ji ortion now vacant amount to nearly fv.rn- w rseven thousand dollars per annum.? te his loss is io one square, and reductions ac ad vacancies of a similar character are to u e found at nearly every point between the | It elaware and Schuylkill. Oa the south !er de of the street, in the square already j to motioned, many buildings are partially j f0 ntenanted. 1 A Suggestive Incident. The Lynchburg Virginian relates the following incident connected with the bat;le of Bethel, as indicative of the character )f the men who have taken the field in defence of the liberties of the people of the South. Daring the action in question, one )f the Virginia companies, commanded by Captain John S. Walker, of Richmond, ocsupied a position of great peril as a corps ie reserve, in which, though exposed to the ihot8 of the enemy, they were not allowed o participate in the defenoe. When the jattle was ended Capt. Walker's command eceived orders to fall back upon Yorktown, tnd early in the march were drawn up be 'ore their commander, who addressed them! ipon the incidents of the day, and adverted ;o the wonderful manner in which they had )een preserved, ascribing their deliverance ;o the Lord of Hosts. The captain then proposed that they ihould return thanks to their Almighty proector, who had shielded them in time of pattle; and there, in presence of the kneeing hosts, resting upon their arms, and in >od's own temple of the earth and sky, he lent up such thanksgivings and supplication as melted every heart. The Christian varrior's soul, overflowing with gratitude, poured forth in touching strains its devout icknowledgments to the Lord of Sabaoth. rhe scene, we are informed, was inspiring, ind several of the soldiers subsequently informed their captain that their views upon ;hes2 subjects had undergone an entire ihange. Such is the influence of a Chrislian officer to counteract the demoralizing :ffects of the war, and of idleness in camps. Who would not rather commit his sons to ;he guardianship of such a man, than to the jontrol of one, who, however high his repu;ation for mere brute courage, has no appreciation of his responsibility to a Higher Power? What made Cromwell's army so resistless, but the religious element infused nto it ? Nothing turned the tide of reverses that the arms of the Parliament at irst sustained, but the God-fearing men lomposiug the remodeled army of the pro;eotor. The religious character of Washingion not only influenced his own conduct, put inspired his soldiers with reference for ihat peerless character, and insured their jonfidence in him to the last. Our present 3ommaoder-in-Cbief, GeD. Lee, is we are lappy to say, also a christian man. T.ilrn tVia rrrnuf frionrl nf Vila illlitifrinilQ 'ather, he looks for guidance and support .0 the God of Battles. Our Chief Magisrate, who may ere long take his place at he head of the army, as the constitutional Jommander-in-Chief, also owns allegiance ,o the King of HeaveD. How striking the :ontrast, when we compare these men with he disciple of Bacchus who now fills the :hair at Washington ; with the old hero of Derro Gordo, who recently, we are informsd, drank a pint of wine at dinner; with he drunken braggart Butler; the prizeighter Billy Willson, or the guilty particijant in his wife's shame?the incompara)le Sickles! How long will it take the Sorth, with such instruments, to subdue a jeople who appeal to conscience and their Jrcator for the rectitude of their iotentioos, ind rely upon the Supreme Arbiter for a ighteous decision ? When the sun again ;oes back on the dial of Ahaz, will the | ^orth conquer in their unholy war. Tiie Bethel Fight.?A Different 67o-j y.?Although much has been published j n regard to an engagement between ourj roops and the Federalists at Bethel Church, till the following, from one of the N. York; fankees engaged in the affair, differs so! eidely from any other account yet given; rom a Northern source, that we deem it of! ufficieot importance to lay before ourj eaders : As a soldier ready to serve my country, I eel myself constrained to protest against he garbled accounts and false statements aadc by some of the Northern papers conerning the fight at Big Bethel. Such reiorts do us great iniustice. Tf. as the pa Of ' * ers state, we were repulsed with a loss of iut thirty or forty killed, every thinking aan must say that we were the most arrant owards on earth. Such was not the case. Ve fought bravely, and did not leave the J ield until after the number cf killed and| rounded proved to us that further attempt ] rould be destructive. We had some 4,00 men. The number of the enemy is ot known, as they fought behind some arthworks Their number could not have een very great, for the works were of no < xtent. Their batteries were so well serv- f d as to reuder it impossible for us to cross 1 he stream, which was some fifty or sixty 1 ?efr. We were exposed to a galling fire 1 jr some two or threG hours, and o;:!y left 1 be field when our men were falling in ' umbers from the deadly shots poured into 1 s. The defeat was disgraceful, but a com- 1 lete one, and no soldier wishes to mince le matter, for the officers are to blame for < innnmnatont niannor in arliJoh fhti whnlp I av, .uw?r,vU, ? *" (fair was conducted. Our loss has been < jvere, and it is an insult to tell us that we I ave been repulsed with one hundred killi and wounded. We have suffered too mch from the incompetency of our officers, ad r not wish to be insulted by lies of ( le press in reference to our want of cour- t je. *,'o stood a murderous fire for three c ours, and were driven back by an enejny a e could not see, but who killed and wouud- c 1 about three hundred of our men. It r as then time for us to retreat, and if that o ;treat was effected in a disorderly manner, c was because our officers were incompe- e ot to perform their duties. Lieut. Gre- t le and his regulars behaved gallantly, but r .e fire of the rebels was too well directed i make auy impression. Ooc thing is cer- o in?their pieces must have been served (. y good men, for, though few iu number, ( iey were fired with great rapidity. v ?[] The Strength of the United States v rmy.?It is ascertained that after the 1 scharge of the three months' troops there i ill be still an available force of volun- a ers amounting to 180,000 men which, t Ided to the regular army, will constitute t total force of 2c?0,000, officers and men. 8 will be for Cougress to determine wheth- t the army shall at this time be increased o an edition of a still larger voluatecr v rcc. s The probable total amount required for r the army, added to the appropriation made for the year ending June, 1860, for the force now iD the field, or which has been accepted and will be in service within the next twenty days, is about $185,300,000. The estimates of the navy are also large, but the exact figures are not yet exhibited. Opinion of a Connecticut Paper.? Though Lincoln and his followers and advisers have determined upon the subjuga tion of the South, there are some in the far corners of Yankeedom who do not approve of the tools employed to effect the purpose. For instance, the New Haven Register says: "One of the most disgraceful of the acts which have characterized the present Administration in its brief and unexampled fnrrpr ia tfid iinnninf-.rrmnf nf .Tim T.an? fcn ' ? ri""?_ v a Brigadier-Generalship, and 'Capt.' Montgomery to a Colonelcy in the army?two as deep-dyed scoundrels as ever went unhung. The murders and robberies committed by these fellows duriog the troubles in Kansas are known to the whole country, and have linked their names in appropriate connection with the hoary villian, but less fortunate, John Brown. These men did all in their power to keep alive the bloody strife in Kansas, and are personally responsible for a large share of its atrocities. Lane murdered a Free State man named Jennings. He was arrested, but contrived to get clear by his influence over men as guilty as himself. His seat in the Senate was secured by corruption unexampled in the history of legislation?the votes of members being openly bought and sold on the floor of the House. "What adds to the enormity of the case was the well authenticated fact that the money used for this purpose was stolen from the contributions sent out by charitable people at the East to relieve the sufferings of Kansas. Since the election of Pomeroy and Lane to the Senate, nothing has been heard of suffering in Kansas. Montgomery is a desperado of the most abandoned character, and has for years kept around him a band of lawless men, who made themselves the terror of the country round about. Their robberies and murders are fresh in the minds of the public. This band is still in active service, and the effect of giving a commission to Montgome ry is to place them in the pay of Government, and make the whole country responsible for their acts. These men proclaim that they are determined to "sustain the Union" and "protect the honor of the flag !" ine elevation ot men or sucn cnaracter to a par with the volunteers who have disinterestedly shouldered their muskets for the support of the Government, in good faith, and with honorable purpose, is a burning disgrace to the country." Coleridge on North and South. The following extracts from Coleridge's "Tabb-Talk," written in 1833, though containing some erorrs, have some reflections, the appositeness of which at the present time will at once strike the reader: JANUARY 4, 1833?"Northern and Southern States of the. American Union: Naturally one would have thought list there would have been greater sympathy betweon the northern and north-western States of the American Union and England than between England and the Southern States. There is ten times as much English blood and spirit in New England as in Virginia, the Carolinas, &c. "Nevertheless, such has been the force of the interests of commerce, that now, and for some years past, the people of thd North hate England with increasing bitterness, while among these of the South who are Jacobiiis, the British connexion ha3 become popular. "Can there ever be any thorough national fusiooof the Northern and Southern States? I think not. In fact, the Union will be shaken almost to dissolution, whenever a very serious question between the States arises. The American Union has no centre, and it is impossible now to make one. The more they extend their borders into the Indians' land, the weaker will the national cohesion be. But I look upon the 1 States as splendid masses, to be used byandby in the composition of two or three great governments." ' "April 10,1833.?But when Mew Eng. 1 land, which may be considered a State iu ' itself, taxes the admissiou of foreigu manufactures, in order to cherish manufactures 1 of its own, and thereby forces the Carolines, ! another State of itself, with which there is ! little inter-communion, which has no such desire or interest to serve, to buy worse articles at a higher price, it is altogether a ' different question, aud is, in fact, down- 1 right tyranny of the worst, because of the 1 most sordid kind. What would you think ( of a law which should tax every person in ( Devonshire for the pecuniary benefit of ' jvery person in Yorkshire ? And yet that ' s a feeble image of the actual usurpation ( )f the New England deputies over the ' oroperty of the Southern States." * Military Movements in Arkansas. * ?We learn from the officers of the steamer f Chester Ashly, who arrived last evening hat Geo. Ben. McCulloch took up his line ^ if march from Fort Smith for Fayetteville ^ ; few days siace. His commaod consisted if five thousand Confederate troops, eight j mndred Choctaw Indians and a company r if half breed Cberokees, eighty strong, com- Q anded by Chief George Johnson. It was j xpected that the advancing force would ie ten or twelve thousand strong on its arival at the State line. v We also learn from the Fort Smith Times, t( f tho 28th, that a considerable force of p onfederates were at Camp Walker, that ^ J-eneral Price, with 1,000 Missourians, t rbo were poorly armed, was within thirty niles, and Gov. Jackson, with 1,500, men, n rithia eighty miles of that point. The j, 'ederal forces marching for the State line, n pursuit of Gov. Jackson, number o,00(J, nd are said to be well armed. It appears o hat the Federal troops are advancing on J he State line at two points. The one from J ipringfield, Mo., towards Fayetteville, and he other towards Camp Walker, by way n f Graoby. The Missourians appear to give tl ray and let these trooops pass without re- r istance. a he State is now completely over- S ua like Maryland. Gov. Jackson is de- 3 posed by the military despots, and a near Governor set up in his place, by the name of Price, not ex-Governor Price, now Major Price. We think that if they attempt to invade Arkansas, they will find sharp resistance. [Memphis Appeal, July 7. Generals in the Confederate Army. The following is a list of the generals appointed in the Provisional and Regular armies of the Confederate States : OENEBALS IN THE REGULAR ARMY. 1. Samuel Cooper, Va., Adjutant General U. S.A. 2. Joseph E. Johnson, Va., Q. M. Genereral U. S. A. 3. Robert E. Lee, Va., Colonel of Cavalry U. S. A. MAJ. GENL'S IN THE PROVISIONAL ARMY. 1. David E. Twiggs, Ga., Brigadier General U. S. A. 2 Braxton Bragg, La., Captain Artillery U. S. A. S. M. L. Bojham, S. C., Congressman from So2fh Carolina. 4. John B. Floyd, Va., U. S. Secretary of War. 5. Ben MoColloagh, Texas, Maj. Texas Rangers. . 6. W. H. T. Walker, Ga., Lt. Col. Infantry U. S. A. 7. Henry A. Wise, Va., late Governor of Va. 8. H. R. Jackson, Ga., late Minister to Austria. 9. Barnard E. Bee, S C., Captain Infantry U. S. A. 10. Nathan G. Evans, S. C., Major Infantiy U. S. A 11. John B. Magrnder, Va., Major Artillery U. S. A. 12. Wm. J. Hardee, Ga., Lt. Col. Cavalry U. S. A. 13. BeDj. Hnger, S. C., Major Ordinance U. S. A. 14. Robert S. Garnett, Va., Major Infantry U. S. A. There have been other appointments made, bnt they are not known ontside of the War Office. Generals Fanntleroy, Winder, Cooke, Raggles and Holmes are in the Provisional Army of Virginia. Gen. Theopholis H. Homes, Gwynn and Gatlin are in the Provisional Army of North Carolina. Generals Pillow and Anderson have appointments as Major Generals in Tennessee. Maj. General Jere. Clemens <i/\mmenr1a in A la ko mo wuuiiuauua IU xiiauaiuai The Federal Army. That oar readers may have some idea of the strength of the federal troops, we olip the following from the Washington dispatch of the New York Tribune of the 1st inst: "There are now over 60,000 troops in and about Washington, counting those on both sides of the Potomac, and not counting those who guard the river opposite to Leesburg and beyond. In making this estimate, we offset the sick against the recruits, which have, from time to time, arrived, the precise number of both of these classes being next to impossible to reach. There are sixty four regiments of volunteers, averaging 900 men each, some 1,200 regulars, of which only 350?five companies? are cavalry, and several hundred district volunteers. "Thirty one regiments are from N. York, seven from New Jersey, four from Pennsylvania, five from Maine, three each from Michigan, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and two from Ohio, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Vermont, Minnesota, and New HamDsbire. New York has one, New Hampshire one, and Pennsylvania two between here and J - ? - ? Point of Rocks, where 1,500 district volunteers, a oompany of United States cavalry and two batteries are also posted. With 60,000 men it would seem possible to do something against the enemy now, without waiting for the three months' meu to expire. They do not relish the prospect of going home without having a taste of service in the held, and will feel no incitement to stay beyond the period of enlistment if their experience of a soldier's life is still to be confined to tents and ditches." Gov. Wise.?We met with a gentleman on the 4th instant, who traveled with a member of the Wise Legion direot from Fayette county, where, the Governor had his headquarters, who informed us that a great change was going on in the sentiment of the people of the Northwest. Governor Wise is speakiog every day, and the effect of his appeals is most salutary. As an instance of Gov. Wise's success in converting those people from the error of their ways, we state the following: "A Union captain was arrested by the legion, and brought to Gov. Wise, who used his eloquence upon the Union man, and :hen let him go iQ obedience to bis request, when he promised to return. The japtain did return, agreeably to promise, laving more than fulfilled his word, in that le persuaded his whole company, one hunired strong, to join the legion, which, it vas reported, would reach ten thousand in \ few days. They were rapidly increasing. Jov. Wise is doing a noble work, for which na fro a] I? fnrcrivn him nil sp over had a. " "" J -"-o -- jainst him.?Lynchburg Virginian. Gen. Bragg Requested to Leave.? ^ correspondent from Pensacola, under late of J une 26, says: "It is reported at the navy-yard (so I am uformed by one of our men who has just eturned to camp) that Brown, commander f Fort Pickens, has sent a message to Gen. Iragg to the effect that he (Brown) would ;ive him (Bragg) ten days to consider the vacuation of McRea, Barancas and the nay yard. Whether General Bragg replied 0 it or not he did not nscertain. My imiression is, that your next accounts from ere will give the result of the greatest batles that was ever fought on the American ontinent. Should the next ten days terrniate our existence here, we can never die 1 a better or nobler cause." Gen. Longstreet.?A correspondent f the Lynchburg Republican writes from Ianassas Junction that Brigadier General ames Longstreet, a gallant soldier of the Iexican war, has been assigned the comland of the 4th Brigade now stationed here, and lately commanded by Col. Terett. He was the first man to plant the U. 1. flag on the wall of Chapultepeo, after Iaj. Selden was shot down.